Field guide No. 041
Knight pasture
Grazing rights, strictly L-shaped.
A glass chess knight on a marble board holds a green valley, with a white horse grazing inside it.
Field noteA valley that fits inside a chess piece has lost the main thing valleys do.
- Specimen
- No. 041
- Genus
- Generated
- Kind
- Impossible (the round square kind)
- Breaks
- Scale
- Where it doesn’t exist
- A marble board, between moves.
- Nearest existing relative
- A chess knight.
- Filed in Fresh slop as
- Spaces
Also impossible, also breaking scale
Lunar tempoA night sky is the thing everything else sits inside. Here it sits inside a metronome, on adagio.
The quiet spin cycleA galaxy, by definition, does not fit behind a porthole. On delicates, it does.
Thunderstorms in the spare bulbsA thunderstorm is miles wide. A thunderstorm the size of a bulb is a smaller thing than itself.
Peak espressoMountain ranges with ski lifts outsize their crockery. This cup is holding one anyway.